IndieWire Critics Poll
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Indiewire |
First awarded | 2006 |
Website | http://www.indiewire.com |
The IndieWire Critics Poll is an annual poll by American film industry and film criticism website IndieWire that recognizes the best in American and international films in a ranking of ten or five films across different categories.
The winners are chosen by the votes of the critics from IndieWire and other invited critics from around the world. The poll began in 2006.
Categories
As of 2024, rankings for nine categories were presented:
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Discontinued
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Winners and nominees
Best Film
Best Director
Best Performance
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best International Film
Best Documentary
Best First Feature
Films Opening Next Year
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | |||||
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2018 | High Life | Transit | Birds of Passage | Her Smell Everybody Knows In Fabric | ||||||
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2020 | New Order | Pieces of a Woman | Beginning | Nine Days | The Killing of Two Lovers | |||||
2021 | Benediction | Hit the Road | Happening | We're All Going to the World's Fair | On the Count of Three In Front of Your Face | |||||
2022 | Showing Up | Godland | Close | De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Pacifiction | |||||
2023 | Hit Man | The Bikeriders | The Beast | Evil Does Not Exist | Green Border | |||||
2024 | Caught by the Tides | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Presence April Misericordia |
The Shrouds | Eephus |
Discontinued categories and special awards
Best Supporting Performance
Best Undistributed Film
Best Original Score or Soundtrack
Best Editing
Best Animated Film
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place |
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2017 | Coco | The Breadwinner | Loving Vincent | The Lego Batman Movie | My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea |
Most Anticipated Film
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place | 7th Place | 8th Place | 9th Place | 10th Place |
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2015 | The Witch | The Lobster | Green Room | No Home Movie | Cemetery of Splendour | My Golden Days | Knight of Cups | The Treasure | Embrace of the Serpent | Krisha |
2016 | Blade Runner 2049 | Star Wars: The Last Jedi | Dunkirk | Phantom Thread | Baby Driver | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Alien: Covenant | The Beguiled | Wonder Woman | The Lost City of Z |
Best Film of the Decade
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place | 7th Place | 8th Place | 9th Place | 10th Place |
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2009 | Mulholland Drive (2001) |
In the Mood for Love (2000) |
Yi Yi (2000) |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
The New World (2005) |
Before Sunset (2004) |
Zodiac (2007) |
Platform (2000) |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
Best Ensemble
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place | 7th Place | 8th Place | 9th Place | 10th Place |
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2011 | Margaret | Bridesmaids | A Separation Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy |
Margin Call | The Descendants House of Tolerance Melancholia Midnight in Paris |
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2012 | Moonrise Kingdom | Lincoln | The Master Silver Linings Playbook |
Argo Django Unchained |
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2013 | 12 Years a Slave | American Hustle | Inside Llewyn Davis | Nebraska | The World's End | Computer Chess | Short Term 12 | Before Midnight | August: Osage County | Blue Jasmine |
Best Overlooked Film
Year | 1st Place | 2nd Place | 3rd Place | 4th Place | 5th Place | 6th Place | 7th Place | 8th Place | 9th Place | 10th Place |
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2016 | The Fits | Always Shine | Happy Hour | Krisha | Evolution | Embrace of the Serpent | Chevalier | Little Men | Sand Storm | Sunset Song |
Notes
- ^ While the film was released in 1969 in France and in 1970 in Italy, it was not released in the United States until 2006.
- ^ While the film premiered at Whitney Museum in 1978, it was not released in American theaters until 2007.
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